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To: GodGunsGuts
"Creationism, born of the denial of the evolution of species through natural selection, was for a long time an almost exclusively American phenomenon," the report says. "Today creationist theories are tending to find their way into Europe … [T]his is liable to encourage the development of all manner of fundamentalism and extremism, synonymous with attacks of utmost virulence on human rights."

Hmmm...how odd. Didn't Hitler use naturalism in his argument to perpetrate the Holocaust?

Just sayin'...

3 posted on 06/29/2007 11:54:39 AM PDT by The Blitherer (What would a Free Man do?)
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To: The Blitherer
==Hmmm...how odd. Didn’t Hitler use naturalism in his argument to perpetrate the Holocaust?

Yes: http://web.csustan.edu/History/Faculty/Weikart/FromDarwintoHitler.htm

The Nazis also used environmentalist arguments. Namely, the Jews were non-native species and thus needed to be exterminated.

5 posted on 06/29/2007 12:00:17 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
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